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Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation

Noel, Michael D.; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...

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Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia

Arnold, Jens; Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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How Special is the Special Relationship? Using the Impact of US R&D Spillovers on UK Firms as a Test of Technology Sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

’ hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

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Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; van Pottelsberghe de la … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on firms’ decision to validate a patent in a particular...

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Employment Protection and Globalization in Dynamic Oligopoly

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show …

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Mind the gap: capturing value from basic research: boundary crossing inventors and partnerships

Arts, Sam; Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the process of how firms access basic research and translate this into applied research. Drawing on basic research firms develop higher quality technologies and develop these technologies more intensely internally. Critical in this process are boundary crossing inventors – inventors...

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The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios

Gambardella, Alfonso; Harhoff, Dietmar; Verspagen, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Patent holders may choose to protect innovations with single patents or to develop portfolios of multiple, related inventions. We propose a simple decision-making model in which patent-holders may allocate resources to either expanding the number of related patents or investing in higher value...

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Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede such follow-on innovation? This paper studies the effect of removing patent protection through court invalidation on the subsequent research related to the focal patent, as measured by later citations. We...

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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...

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